SC - Recipes vs. Copyrights

[Korrin S DaArdain]

>> Haifuku!
>>
>>Columbus found the tomato being used as food and brought them back in 1493.
>>In 1583, the Portuguese introduced then into China and into Japan in 1543.
>>Apparently they were used as an ornamental plant rather than food.
>> >
>> > Bear
>>
>>Might I ask waht your source is for the introduction of Tomatoes into Japan?
>>
>> Yumitori
>>

According to Waverly Root in Food, "The tomato was slow about infiltrating
Asia. It is mentioned in Java in 1658, as the tomata, though we do not know
which Europeans brought it there, and this is also true for Malaysia, where
it was reported in 1755. But in Thunberg's supposedly complete listing of
the food plants of Japan in 1776 it does not appear. Not until the
nineteenth century is it on record as being cultivated there."

Sounds like it was't eaten there in period....

Morgana

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